African Violets and Gesneriads: Diastema vexans, Amalophyllon clarkii and other rhizomatous, 0 by bsimpson1972

bsimpson1972 wrote:
I just started growing the, well, a little bit more unusual rhizomatous Gesneriads from both seed and rhizomes. I just want to use this thread to exchange information on growing them. What I'm talking about are Genera like Niphaea, Phinaea, Heppiella, Gloxinella, Gloxinia, Pearcea, Amalophyllon and so on. I love all rhizomatous Gesneriads equally but there already is plenty of information on growing Achimenes, Kohleria, Eucodonia and Smithiantha for example.

Since I don't want to start a thread without a picture, here are some of my Diastema vexans seedlings that struggled in the beginning but are now growing like weeds.